incarnadine

• POS: Adjective, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=car=na=dine

CIDE DICTIONARY

incarnadine, a. [F. incarnadin, It. incarnatino; L. pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. Cf. Carnation, Incarnate.].

 Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color.  Lovelace.  [1913 Webster]

incarnadine, v. t. 

 To dye red or crimson.  [1913 Webster]
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incarnadine, adj. & v. poet.
--adj. flesh-coloured or crimson.
--v.tr. dye this colour.

Etymology

F incarnadin -ine f. It. incarnadino (for -tino) f. incarnato INCARNATE adj.

ROGET THESAURUS

incarnadine

Redness

VB be red, become red, blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden, render red, redden, rouge, rubify, rubricate, incarnadine, ruddle.

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.